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/bˈoʊltɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Bolting n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.

Bolting n.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

(Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. (Obs.)

Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; used by millers for sifting flour.

Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

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"Bolting" Quotes from Famous Books

... places," I said. "It was that day I went over to try and find you out—just before we came up to London, you know. I was walking back to Brownstroke, and met the pony bolting down the road." ...

— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... number last season. He is a steady goer, and as gentle as a dear old sheep. I can hardly realize the strenuous times I had with him only a month ago, when it took about four of us to get him harnessed to a sledge, and two of us every time with all our strength to keep him from bolting when in it. Even at the start of the journey he was as nearly unmanageable as any beast could be, and always liable to bolt from sheer excess of spirits. He is more sober now after three weeks of featureless ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... use in spring will be likely to grow when they should stand still, and at the first break of pleasant spring weather they will bolt, very much to the vexation of those who expected many a basket of sprouts from them. A May sowing planted out in a cold place may stand without bolting until spring is somewhat advanced. Kale of the 'Asparagus' type, such as Sutton's Favourite, will often prove successful when sown as late ...

— The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition • Sutton and Sons

... of the dairy, while some communication seemed to tremble on her lips, which, at a glance of Archibald's eye, she appeared to swallow down, and compressed her lips thereafter into a state of extreme and vigilant firmness, as if she had been afraid of its bolting out ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... inseparable from slavery. He also spoke of the fears which haunted the slaveholders. He never would live on an estate; and whenever he chanced to stay over night in the country, he always took care to secure his door by bolting and barricading it. At Mr. Thomson's we met Andrew Wright, Esq., the proprietor of a sugar estate called Green Wall, situated some six miles from the bay. He is an intelligent gentleman, of an amiable disposition—has on his estate one hundred and sixty apprentices. He described his people ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

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